Monday, September 7, 2009

55th Iowa Open

This year's 55th Iowa Open was quite strong by Iowa standards, with 3 masters, 6 experts (including newly 2100+ Iowan Robert Keating), and a host of A-players. I won with 4.5/5.

Here is the crosstable:
http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?200909069141

The average rating of my opponents was 2089! I won the event and played fairly well. I will try to post some of my games on the much-neglected chessunderground.org later this week. For now, the Life Master progress update:

Round 1: Win vs Juett, Jason (1913)
Round 2: Win vs Reynolds, Robert (2002)
Round 3: Win vs Keating, Robert (2116)
Round 4: Win vs Weiss, Mitch (2221)
Round 5: Draw vs McEntee, Tim (2200)


New Rating: 2242
Games Played: 265
Games left: 35

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